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LED Lighting to Reach $42.5B by 2020

Residential needs have dominated the LED market for the past few years, and as demand in Asia and Europe increases, the market is…

Industry and Business

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DOE Proposed Light Bulb Energy Efficiency Standards to Lead to $12.5 Billion in Annual Consumer Savings

Once all of America's approximately 4 billion lighting sockets contain energy-saving bulbs that meet the standards, U.S. consumers and…

Industry and Business

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Morocco’s Massive Desert Solar Project Starts Up

Last week, Morocco opened the first phase of what may become the largest solar energy plant in the world in an effort to reach their…

Industry and Business

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Silicon Photonics - From Promise To Reality In Datacentres

The power needs of data centers will continue to rise in the future, with cloud storage and data flow speed as the main contributors to…

Research

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Two Big Wins for Rooftop Solar

In December, President Obama extended a solar tax credit, just a few days after the Public Utilities Commission issued their proposed…

Industry and Business

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Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Proposal Gains Momentum

Elon Musk's proposed "Hyperloop," which aims to propel passengers through an evacuated tube near the speed of sound, is being put to the…

Industry and Business

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UCSB Professor Art Gossard to Be Honored With National Medal of Technology and Innovation

The White House announced Professor Art Gossard is to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, representing the nation’s…

Awards and Accolades

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Four UCSB Faculty Named Fellows of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI)

UCSB Professors John Bowers, Umesh Mishra, Galen Stucky, and Craig Hawker have been honored with prestigious distinction by The National…

Awards and Accolades

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Pushing the Limits of Solar Cells

Florida State University researchers are striving to make solar cells more effective at trapping and using light.

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Flextech Alliance Receives $75 Million Dep't of Defense Award

IEE faculty Michael Chabinyc, Tim Cheng, and Rachel Segalman will be a part of this Manufacturing Innovation Institute (MII) for…

Awards and Accolades

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Presidential Recognition

The Institute's executive director David Auston has been honored with the Award for Outstanding Faculty Leadership in Presidential…

Awards and Accolades

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UK Aims to Douse Coal Power by 2025

Britain has become the first country to set a shut-down date for coal plants in an effort to reduce their carbon emissions, with huge…

Industry and Business

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New Material Makes It Easier to Store Lots of Natural Gas

Work done at the University of California, Berkeley, shows how it may be possible to store natural gas more efficiently in cars using a…

Research

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Shuji Nakamura inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

For inventing the blue light-emitting diode, UCSB and Institute faculty member Shuji Nakamura will be inducted into the National…

Awards and Accolades

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Transforming Us Into a Society of Food Producers

Computer Science Professor Chandra Krintz recently gave a TEDx talk about how the same data analysis and prediction techniques used by…

Industry and Business

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Obama Rejects Construction of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline

President Obama announced that he had rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven…

Industry and Business